In the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling making gay marriage legal throughout the United States, I wanted to take a moment to revisit the issue. Marriage equality has been near and dear to me ever since my time in law school (1992). I never understood the right to discriminate and all things that claimed to be equal but were not (domestic partnerships, etc.). Needless to say, the Supreme Court’s decision is a most welcome one to me.
So what now? This I have written about a lot over the years: Dare To Be First (March 2009), Gay Marriage in New York (a personal fave) (July 2011), A Changing World (incredibly relevant for today: “When the fight is over, the real work of creative business begins), and Gay Marriage and The Supreme Court (June 2013). All I wrote in these posts is as powerfully true today as was when I first wrote the words. I do hope you might take a few minutes to reread them and see if they might not be useful to you as you decide how your creative business might proceed in the wake of the decision.
No doubt creative business now has a massive burden. Opportunists will be opportunists. Many will be invested in commoditizing the opportunity as they have if they happened to be in a State that made gay marriage legal prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling. So be it. My prayer – be the change agent instead. We do not call inter-racial, inter-faith, inter anything marriage any more, we just call it marriage. This is the work for gay marriage. A moment to define our culture – a step towards inclusion and tolerance on what remains our long journey towards true acceptance of other.
